ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
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~TteNEDiN, March 6. Between seven and eight this morning Mr J. R. Thornton, solicitor, was picked up on the St. Clair beach, unconscious, with' a wound from a poa rifle in the centre of his forehead. The weapon was still in his hand. Very little hepe of recovery is entertained. : Match 7.
Mr J. R. Thornton, solicitor, who was found unconscious on the St. Clair beach yesterday, died in the hospital at ten minute's past five this morniag. V; [Mr Thornton leaves a wife and two children. He was married at Christchurch, where he was a distinguished College student. On settling at Danedin he entered into partnership with Dn Fitohett, now Solicitor-General.]
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 54, 7 March 1903, Page 3
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119ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 54, 7 March 1903, Page 3
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